Whaaaat?! Surely you
can’t be serious.
I am being serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Let me ‘splain. Put down the pitchforks and pom-poms.
How can a lifelong
conservative Republican, precinct-walking Romney voter say she’s glad the other
guy won?
I’m not glad that Obama won.
Butbutbut… you said--
I know what I said. Have a seat. This is going to take a
while.
I’m not glad that we’ll continue to spend trillions of
dollars we don’t have. I’m not glad that millions of people will continue to be
unable to provide for their families without government involvement. I’m not
glad that Obamacare will become a permanent part of our legislative landscape.
And I admit, I was really hoping I could stop spending $800 a month on gasoline.
I’m not glad that the worst president of the modern era,
possibly the worst president ever, was re-elected. As far as I can remember, the
only three campaign promises he kept were killing bin Laden, increasing energy
prices, and fundamentally transforming America. The last one makes me truly sad.
America’s emptiest suit, so very full of himself, gets four more years to remake
our republic in his own image.
There’s been a whole lot of “How could this happen?” on the
Right over the past week. I’ve seen a lot of articles and blog posts from
people scratching their heads about this election. Simply put, Obama won
because a majority of voters wanted what he was offering – twice. We are a
fundamentally different country now. I’m not convinced our current populace
would have elected Ronald Reagan, were he running in 2012 instead of 1980. Obama
won because he fits our times.
On November 6, 2012, we saw that the America we knew is
terminally ill. The America that drew my mother here from El Salvador, that
made my father proud, handed itself its own death sentence. Now it’s just a
matter of watching the life drain out of Uncle Sam’s face.
America. It was nice while it lasted. The Second Coming
feels a whole lot closer than it did ten days ago.
Wow. Exaggerate much?
Not really. Especially now that Hamas is going to war with
Israel. We weren’t the only ones watching the outcome of this election, you
know. Anyway…
